Right-Wing Group That Compares Biden Conservation Plan to Genocide Is Getting Taxpayer Money
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Wikimedia CommonsAt least five counties in western states have paid tens of thousands in taxpayer funds to a right-wing group organizing a push against a federal land conservation program.The Biden administration’s “30 by 30” plan is a voluntary environmental program with a goal of conserving 30 percent of the country’s land and water by 2030. But anti-conservation groups have a darker interpretation of the initiative. One group, Americ